Multi-center:The Small (14F) Percutaneous Catheter vs. Large (28-40F) Open Chest Tube for Traumatic Hemothorax (P-CAT)

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Conditions studied: The Efficacy of Percutaneous Catheter vs. Open Chest Tube, Traumatic Hemothorax

In brief

After sustaining severe trauma to the chest, patients will often bleed into the chest cavity (pleural space) which is called hemothorax or they may also experience air leakage within the chest cavity in combination with the bleeding (hemopneumothorax). These conditions are treated with the insertion of a tube into the chest called a chest tube (CT). Insertion of the CT is very painful for the patient due to the size or diameter of the tube. Alternative to CT is a small percutaneous catheter (PC), pigtail or non-pigtail. At Banner-University of Arizona Tucson Campus (B-UATC) investigator prefers inserting a small pigtail catheter for the management of hemothorax or hemopnuemothorax. The primary purpose of our study is to see if the use of the PC is just as effective as CT in terms of removing leaked blood and/or air from the chest cavity.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03546764

Run by

University of Arizona

People needed

61

Starts

2018-03-01

Expected to finish

2021-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-05-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age > 18
• Traumatic HTX/HPTX requiring chest tube insertion

You may not qualify if…

• Emergent indication, hemodynamic instability
• Patient refuses to participate
• Prisoner
• Pregnancy

Where it is running

• University of Ariznoa Medican Center, Main campus — Tucson, Arizona, United States
• Emory University — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• University of Nebrask — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• Medical College of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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